A simple trapping method to estimate abundances of blood-sucking flying insects in avian nests

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 723-729

  Tomás, Gustavo ^a   Merino, Santiago ^a   Martínez De La Puente, Josué ^a   Moreno, Juan ^a   Morales, Judith ^a   Lobato, Elisa ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

birds; biting midges; blackflies; blood parasite insect vector vertebrate host relationships; Ceratopogonidae; Culicoides; distance to water sources; insecticide treatment; sampling methods; Simuliidae

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLY; METHODOLOGY; NEST; TRAPPING;

AVES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; HEXAPODA; SIMULIIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38649112631     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.08.018     Document Type: Note

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